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diff --git a/docs/ChrisNotes.txt b/docs/ChrisNotes.txt
index ada4b0473a..6af61155b5 100644
--- a/docs/ChrisNotes.txt
+++ b/docs/ChrisNotes.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-* Must update PHI node to have a pair between predecessor and value.
+* pred/succ iterators on basic blocks don't handle switch statements correctly
* Enhance BB to make predecessor handling easier (to update PHI nodes)
* Provide a pass that eliminates critical edges from the CFG
-* Provide a print hook to print out xvcg format files for vis
+* Provide a print pass to print out xvcg format files for vis
* I need to provide an option to the bytecode loader to ignore memory
dependance edges. Instead, the VM would just treat memory operations
(load, store, getfield, putfield, call) as pinned instructions.
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
structure size to 256 members. This can be fixed later by either:
1. adding varient that takes ushort
2. Splitting structures into nested structures each of half size
- <float> %f = loadfield *{int, {float}} Str, ubyte 1, ubyte 0
- storefield float %f, *{int, {float}} Str, ubyte 1, ubyte 0
+ <float> %f = load *{int, {float}} Str, 1, 0
+ store float %f, *{int, {float}} Str, 1, 0
* I'm noticing me writing a lot of code that looks like this (dtor material here):
ConstPool.dropAllReferences();
ConstPool.delete_all();
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@
* pointer int *
* "packed format", like this: [4 x sbyte]: Packed SIMD datatype
* Maybe 'tailcall' also?
-* It might be nice to support enumerations of some sort... especially for use
- as a compiler IR
* Include a method level bytecode block that defines a mapping between values
and registers that defines a minimally register allocated code. This can
make me finally address how to encode extensions in assembly.
diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html
index b3d6d52121..bd055edb97 100644
--- a/docs/LangRef.html
+++ b/docs/LangRef.html
@@ -1045,6 +1045,7 @@ Memory is allocated, a pointer is returned. '<tt>alloca</tt>'d memory is automa
<pre>
&lt;result&gt; = load &lt;ty&gt;* &lt;pointer&gt; <i>; yields {ty}:result</i>
&lt;result&gt; = load &lt;ty&gt;* &lt;arrayptr&gt;, uint &lt;idx&gt; <i>; yields {ty}:result</i>
+ &lt;result&gt; = load &lt;ty&gt;* &lt;structptr&gt;{, &lt;idx&gt;}* <i>; yields field type</i>
</pre>
<h5>Overview:</h5>
@@ -1052,9 +1053,9 @@ The '<tt>load</tt>' instruction is used to read from memory.<p>
<h5>Arguments:</h5>
-There are two forms of the '<tt>load</tt>' instruction: one for reading from a general pointer, and one for reading from a pointer to an array.<p>
+There are three forms of the '<tt>load</tt>' instruction: one for reading from a general pointer, one for reading from a pointer to an array, and one for reading from a pointer to a structure.<p>
-In the first form, '<tt>&lt;ty&gt;</tt>' may be any pointer type. If it is a pointer to an array, the first (zeroth) element is read from). In the second form, '<tt>&lt;ty&gt;</tt>' must be a pointer to an array. No bounds checking is performed on array reads.<p>
+In the first form, '<tt>&lt;ty&gt;</tt>' may be any pointer type. If it is a pointer to an array, the first (zeroth) element is read from). In the second form, '<tt>&lt;ty&gt;</tt>' must be a pointer to an array. No bounds checking is performed on array reads. In the third form, the pointer must point to a (possibly nested) structure. There shall be one ubyte argument for each level of dereferencing involved.<p>
<h5>Semantics:</h5>
@@ -1070,7 +1071,7 @@ In the first form, '<tt>&lt;ty&gt;</tt>' may be any pointer type. If it is a po
<a href="#i_store">store</a> [4 x ubyte]* %array,
uint 4, ubyte 124
%val = load [4 x ubyte]* %array, uint 4 <i>; yields {ubyte}:val = ubyte 124</i>
-
+ %val = load {{int, float}}* %stptr, 0, 1 <i>; yields {float}:val</i>
</pre>
@@ -1370,7 +1371,7 @@ more...
<address><a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></address>
<!-- Created: Tue Jan 23 15:19:28 CST 2001 -->
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-Last modified: Thu May 31 17:36:39 CDT 2001
+Last modified: Mon Jun 11 09:30:45 CDT 2001
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